The U.S. medical establishment has gone all in supporting gender ideology, including puberty-blocking drugs and surgeries for adolescents. But medical experts in the field have pushed back against the Endocrine Society’s embrace of “gender-affirming care” in the Wall Street Journal. It’s worth noting. From the letter to the editor:
Every systematic review of evidence to date, including one published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, has found the evidence for mental-health benefits of hormonal interventions for minors to be of low or very low certainty. By contrast, the risks are significant and include sterility, lifelong dependence on medication and the anguish of regret. For this reason, more and more European countries and international professional organizations now recommend psychotherapy rather than hormones and surgeries as the first line of treatment for gender-dysphoric youth.
Dr. Hammes’s claim that gender transition reduces suicides is contradicted by every systematic review, including the review published by the Endocrine Society, which states, “We could not draw any conclusions about death by suicide.” There is no reliable evidence to suggest that hormonal transition is an effective suicide-prevention measure.
The “science” is not settled!